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Benjy Compson's avatar

Never in my life did I think there would come a day I am ashamed of the formerly greatest country on Gods green Earth. A President of the United States rolled out a bloody red carpet for a Stalinist in the flesh on American soil and blamed the rape, I mean invasion of the Ukraine on…Zelinsky…live, from the Bada Bing, I mean Oval Office. God help U.S. Forgive me Jesus, I know we are commanded to pray for our sinners…but not The Don…Ashli Babbitt still cannot be reached for comment…and neither can thousands of Ukrainian victims of Trumpism, I mean Putin…but it is a distinction without a difference…they are both psycho killer monsters , I mean mobsters, crony capitalist pigs

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Kevin Dolan's avatar

Subscribed.

You’re not shouting into the abyss, though it might feel like it.

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Emily Ellet's avatar

Couldn't agree more (with great sadness) on the horrific betrayal of Ukraine by MAGA and the Trump administration, but I do have to push back on the idea that being anti-Israel and non-antiSemitic is rare. Not only am I both of those things, but most of my progressive friends are also such. Criticizing and withdrawing support from a genocidal state is not the same as hating all Jews, because Israel =/= Judaism. Just as hating the American state is not the same as loathing Americans; indeed, many countries' citizens have hated America the state but been lovely and loving toward Americans themselves.

That being said, I am deeply grateful to you, as a conservative, calling out the abhorrence of our current state position towards Ukraine and Russia. <3

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anon's avatar

paternalistic much?

maybe you got confused by the MAGA pro-israeli anti-semites, including trump.

and they dont care much for christians in ukraine for sure.

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Patrick Brennan's avatar

History repeats itself, again.

Lindbergh, Coughlin, America-Firsters and their like, unabashed admirers of Fascists and Nazis, resisted reaction while the armies of Hitler and Mussolini assaulted, infested and subjugated every nation in Europe except Great Britain, and Japan raped the entire Asian continent. Only when our nation itself was attacked did the American People wake up the reality that rampant tyranny anywhere threatens us.. Who falls after Ukraine: Moldova? Romania? Slovakia? Latvia? Poland? Will Trump's administration find a reason not to honour our NATO obligations? Will it take another attack on the Homeland? And will it then be too late? Or will we simply switch sides?

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Kumara Republic's avatar

Tankies like Putin for his anti-Americanism & anti-NATO stance.

Neo-Fascists & neo-Reactionists like Putin for his "defence of traditional Christian values" against "wokism". Trump & Co have a streak of that, plus the financial self-interest with like-minded Mafia statists in Moscow.

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Richard Finch's avatar

In order to support Trump with a quasi-clean conscience, they’ve brainwashed themselves into believing that Dems are in league with the Devil. So, if the Dems support Ukraine, then Ukraine must be in league with the Devil too.

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Bob Tenaglio's avatar

The following prayer is brought to you by MATT 5:44 and LUKE 6:27

Lord, I believe

help my unbelief

Lord, I'm grateful

help my ingratitude

Lord, my spirit is willing

help my flesh

Lord I love my enemies

help my Schadenfreude

Lead us not into bitterness

but deliver us from zugzwang, Amen.

I have a friend who, every time I say amen, he says "stop calling me Shirley!"

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Bob Tenaglio's avatar

BTW, this is my prayer for Trump, Putin, Xi, Kim and the whole damlaut. (apologies to Lola Young)

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Bob Tenaglio's avatar

Maybe if people had prayed for Hitler's soul instead of his ambitions, we'd have had folks living on Mars by now.

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